Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This has gone over and back a number of times, so I promise not to repeat what has been said, and then I will go ahead and repeat every point that has already been made. That is what sometimes happens here.

Let us start with NCTs. We realise where we are. We know the situation as it stands. As the Chair stated, the timeframe that was mentioned is unacceptable. It will probably be the end of the second quarter of next year when the NCT backlog situation is sorted, as well as the problems with driving tests.

At the moment, when do I get sent a letter to instruct me that my NCT is due? In most cases, myself included, half the time we do not even look at the front of our windscreen to see when it is due. I only started looking when I got the letter, which is probably too late.